Automatic Patents (Class 715/226)
  • Patent number: 8539334
    Abstract: A method for storing, organizing and providing remote electronic access to documents. A cover sheet including a standard set of identification data characterizing each document is developed and stored. A digital version of each document is created and stored by scanning each contract. Each digital version includes a scanned image and a searchable text file, wherein the text is overlaid with the image. An index of bookmarks identifying sections of the digital version of each document is generated. Selected fields of information are captured from the digital version of the document. The documents are organized and cross-referenced in a database that includes the captured information and additional information related to each document. Designated parties are alerted of critical dates associated with each document. Remote electronic access to the documents is provided over the internet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: TractManager, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott R. Jeffery, Thomas A. Rizk
  • Patent number: 8539335
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for entering data into a web page by means of a data processing system. The method includes detecting a wireless device and forming a communication link between the data processing system and the wireless device. The method also includes retrieving data from the wireless device. The method also includes populating fields in the web-page with the retrieved data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Barbara Febonio, Sandro Piccinini
  • Patent number: 8533584
    Abstract: A context control interface may include a context name field that is arranged and configured to identify a working context, one or more attribute name fields that are configured to identify one or more attributes that define the working context and one or more attribute value fields that are arranged and configured to correspond to the attribute name fields and to define one or more values for the attribute name fields. The attribute name fields and the corresponding attribute value fields may be mapped to a first set of fields in a first application and may be mapped to second set of fields in a second application and the attributes and the values populate the first set of fields and the second set of fields such that the working context is persistent across the first application and the second application, where the first application differs from the second application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Kerstin Dittmar, Carsten Fuchs, Bernhard Teltscher, Ingo Deck, Susann Stieler, Martin Schrepp, Annett Hardt, Theo Held, Dietrich Mayer-Ullmann, Nadine Beigel, Hena Mau, Martin Wegmann, Stefan Kirchfeld, Edward Palmer
  • Publication number: 20130219257
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and apparatus, the apparatus comprising an information receiving component, a text presentation component for presenting at least a first part of the information on a first pane as text; a form presentation component for presenting at least a second part of the information as a structured form comprising one or more fields on a second pane; and an update component for updating information displayed in the first pane or the second pane in response to changes entered to information displayed in the second pane or in the first pane, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Boaz Carmeli, Carmel Kent, Yonatan Maman, Ruty Rinott, Yoav Rubin, Noam Slonim
  • Publication number: 20130219258
    Abstract: Methods and devices for populating a portion of a contact entry are described. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a contact entry, the contact entry having a contact identifier; identifying, in a data store, a record which is associated with the contact identifier and which has a time identifier identifying a time that was prior to the time when the contact entry was received; and populating a portion of the contact entry with data from the identified record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Prateek Bhatnagar
  • Publication number: 20130205191
    Abstract: Systems and methods of electronic visitor registration are provided. Methods include receiving visitor information via a wireless communication medium, extracting at least one piece of data from the received visitor information, populating respective fields of a registration form with the extracted at least one piece of data, and based on the populated registration form, determining whether to register a visitor associated with the received visitor information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Gayathri C. Ramachandran, Sivakumar Balakrishnan, Muthuvel Ramalingamoorthy
  • Publication number: 20130198598
    Abstract: A method of populating form data may include accessing an electronic form provided by a website. The electronic form may include a plurality of fields. The method may also include using the plurality of fields to request information associated with the plurality of fields from an identity repository and receiving the information associated with the plurality of fields from the identity repository. The method may additionally include using the information associated with the plurality of fields to populate the plurality of fields of the electronic form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: OneID Inc.
    Inventor: OneID Inc.
  • Patent number: 8499235
    Abstract: Presented is a method of posting content to a web site. A user input is obtained on a machine readable paper with a predefined template. Later, an electronic image of the machine readable paper is captured along with the user input. The electronic image of the machine readable paper is decoded to identify the predefined template and the predefined template is searched against a repository to find a web site corresponding to the predefined template of the machine readable paper. A web site based on user input is created or modified depending upon whether a web site corresponding to the predefined template of the machine readable paper is found.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Sitaram Ramachandrula, Anjaneyulu Seetha Rama Kuchibhotla, Suryaprakash Kompalli, Shekhar Ramachandra Borgaonkar
  • Publication number: 20130191714
    Abstract: Animation and visuals are displayed when automatically filling/changing values within a document. A scan animation may be displayed to assist a user in understanding that an action is about to occur using their recent edit(s). A fill animation may be displayed while the suggested values are automatically filled within the document. For example, the suggested values may be displayed according to an uncommitted state (e.g. light grey text) as compared to a committed state (e.g. black text) of related values. The suggested values may be accepted/rejected while they are displayed according to the uncommitted state. When the suggested values are rejected, the suggested values are removed from the display. When the suggested values are accepted, the suggested values are transitioned to the committed state. When a user performs an edit on one or more of the suggested values, a change animation may be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chad Rothschiller, Eric Cohen, Karen Cheng, Josh Leong, Christopher Benedict, Keri Talbot, Igor Borisov Peev, Andrew Becker
  • Patent number: 8495487
    Abstract: An integrated web-based dealership management system providing accounting ,financial reporting, parts and service sales tracking, vehicle and parts inventory, vehicle sales tracking, and customer management software developed on a relational database on a web server and with web application tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Inventors: Sandra Lee Jerome, Keith Jerome
  • Patent number: 8473354
    Abstract: A platform facilitates buyers, sellers, and third parties in obtaining information related to each other's transaction histories, such as a supplier's shipment history, the types of materials typically shipped, a supplier's customers, a supplier's expertise, what materials and how much a buyer purchases, buyer and shipper reliability, similarity between buyers, similarity between suppliers, and the like. The platform aggregates data from a variety of sources, including, without limitation, customs data associated with actual import/export transactions and facilitates the generation of reports as to the quality of buyers and suppliers, the reports relating to a variety of parameters that are associated with buyer and supplier quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Panjiva, Inc.
    Inventors: James Ryan Psota, Joshua Green
  • Patent number: 8473838
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which syndication spaces for a webpage are identified, each syndication space defining a location on the webpage in which one or more advertisements are displayed at a client device, and each syndication space associated with one or more attributes. Display data is generated that causes each syndication space to selectively display a visual indication of one or more of the attributes on the webpage at the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan Hickman
  • Patent number: 8458587
    Abstract: A method of entering page layout constraints into a computer. The method comprises providing a container for representing a page layout. The method further comprises providing a set of graphical objects, each having a set of object gridlines for delimiting important graphical features. Each of the set of object gridlines has a span. The method further comprises selecting and placing the set of graphical objects one by one within the container. Each of the selected graphical objects are positioned by snapping the position of the span to a non-empty gridline or by adding a new gridline. The method further comprises determining at least one pair of colliding gridlines. Colliding gridlines have a parallel direction and at least one pair of spans which at least partially overlap in the parallel direction. The method further comprises inserting page layout constraints between the at least one pair of colliding gridlines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Think-Cell Software GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Theophil, Valentin Ziegler, Arno Schodl, Markus Hannebauer
  • Patent number: 8438467
    Abstract: An initialized graphical user interface program can produce a plurality of parameter input fields in a graphical user interface. The plurality of parameter input fields can be logically grouped with similar parameter input fields in close approximation to each other in the graphical user interface. The graphical user interface program can then receive a plurality of parameter data from a user can input into the parameter input fields of the graphical user interface program. Based on the received user input parameter data, the graphical user interface program can deactivate one or more parameter input fields. The graphical user interface program can error-check the received input data and provide warnings for any incorrect data. Finally, the graphical user interface program can generate a fort.15 input file based on the parameter input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Cheryl A. Blain, Robert S. Linzell
  • Patent number: 8432563
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a dynamic re-configuration with a DFE imager and caching modules to optimize RIP performance by analyzing pages within the job that collect page with job heuristics and statistics. Enabling the functionality to assess the information, thereby re-configuring a digital printer's imager and caching module dynamically during the job RIP to achieve improved overall RIP performance. Accordingly, a system collects and assesses job statistics across multiple jobs to enable optimum performance over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Eric S. Barnes
  • Publication number: 20130104022
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for auto-filling information is described. A website is accessed on a device. A plurality of fields on the website are analyzed. A location of the device may be determined. At least one of the plurality of fields is filled-in with user information. At least a portion of the user information is based on the location of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventor: Jonathan Coon
  • Patent number: 8423425
    Abstract: A platform facilitates buyers, sellers, and third parties in obtaining information related to each other's transaction histories, such as a supplier's shipment history, the types of materials typically shipped, a supplier's customers, a supplier's expertise, what materials and how much a buyer purchases, buyer and shipper reliability, similarity between buyers, similarity between suppliers, and the like. The platform aggregates data from a variety of sources, including, without limitation, customs data associated with actual import/export transactions and facilitates the generation of reports as to the quality of buyers and suppliers, the reports relating to a variety of parameters that are associated with buyer and supplier quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Panjiva, Inc.
    Inventors: James Ryan Psota, Joshua Green
  • Patent number: 8407581
    Abstract: In the presently preferred embodiment of the invention, every time a user submits a form the client software tries to match the submitted information with the stored profile of that user. If a match is discovered, the program tags the field of the recognized data with a corresponding type. The resulting profile can be used after that to help all subsequent users to fill the same form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Ognian Z. Topalov, Eric Hohenstein
  • Patent number: 8402362
    Abstract: A system for automatically completing fields in online forms, such as login forms and new user registration forms, which employs a Master Cookie File containing sets of records associated with the user, his or her accounts or web sites, and registered values associated with form tags (e.g. username, password, address, email, telephone, etc.). When the user encounters another form, the MCF is automatically searched for matching values and form tags, primarily from the same account or web site, or alternatively from other accounts or sites. A flowing pop-up menu is displayed nearby the form fields from which the user can select values to automatically complete the form. Automatic account information updating, value expiration management, mapping of favorite values, and sharing of values are optional, enhanced functions of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Jenson Boss, Yen-Fu Chen, Rick Allen Hamilton, II, Timothy Moffett Waters
  • Patent number: 8390867
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a form management system that generates a form ID of the form to be created, on the basis of a form data ID, which is generated based on a template ID generated from a form template and form data to be overlaid thereon. In addition, the form management system may be capable of identifying and managing the form template and the form data for the generated form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yutaka Kato
  • Patent number: 8375289
    Abstract: An input of document data, in which a rule for retrieving an object from a database has been specified for each region, is received. For each region, the number of times that the database is referenced for retrieving the object is counted by applying the rule. A reference value and each of the counted are compared. For each region, it is determined that the object is to be inserted in the region if the result of the comparison is that the number of times is less than or equal to the reference value, and that the object is not to be inserted in the region if the number of times is greater than the reference value. A preview of the document data is displayed with, for each region, the object being inserted in the region or the object not being inserted in the region in accordance with the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naohiro Isobe
  • Patent number: 8358852
    Abstract: Systems and methods automatically generate a model of a form or other document and identify the form or other document. In one aspect, a system and method normalize an image of a document and identify the relative positions of the vertical and horizontal lines in the normalized image. The relative positions of the vertical and horizontal lines of the normalized image are the model of the document image. The model may be stored in a record, such as an array. The system and method compare the relative positions of the horizontal and vertical lines of the model to the relative positions of horizontal and vertical lines of other models to identify a matching model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Eduardo Bastos dos Santos, Brian G. Anderson, David E. Kelley
  • Patent number: 8358853
    Abstract: Systems and methods automatically generate a model of a form or other document and identify the form or other document. In one aspect, a system and method normalize an image of a document and identify the relative positions of vertical and horizontal lines in the normalized image. The relative positions of vertical and horizontal lines of the normalized image are the model of the document image. The model may be stored in a record, such as an array. The system and method compare the relative positions of vertical and horizontal lines of the model to the relative positions of vertical and horizontal lines of other models to identify a matching model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Lexmark International Technology, SA
    Inventors: Jose Eduardo Bastos dos Santos, Brian G. Anderson, David E. Kelley
  • Patent number: 8355966
    Abstract: A method for using a website, including detecting, using an agent executing on a central processing unit (CPU) and operatively coupled to a financial management application (FMA), a user accessing a webpage of the website by comparing a web address submitted by the user to a pre-determined web address of the webpage, analyzing the webpage based on a pre-determined template to identify a data entry field, identifying, using the agent executing on the CPU, data managed within the FMA for populating the data entry field, wherein the data is identified by comparing the data entry field to a data model of the FMA, retrieving the data managed within the FMA to generate retrieved data, and populating, using the agent executing on the CPU, the data entry field using the retrieved data based on the data model of the FMA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Miriam Nga-Shun Vu, Nedda Cox, Julie Stanford
  • Patent number: 8352850
    Abstract: A method for entering input into a form involves receiving prose based on the form and a first input, receiving a request for a second input, where the request is based on the first input, submitting the second input in response to the request, where the second input contains a modification to the prose, where the second input is incorporated into the prose to obtain a summary that enables comprehension of the form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Creed, Chris Quinn, Kenichi Mori, Justin C. Marr
  • Patent number: 8352861
    Abstract: Provides a Web server for generating display control information for dividing and displaying a form in a style conforming to a client device used by a user, which includes a HTTP request reception unit for receiving a form request from the client device, an application code database for storing a screen definition of the form subjected to the form request and a code of a validator for executing validation of an input value inputted into an input item in the form, a form division unit for dividing the form in conformity to the acquired terminal capacity by use of the read-out screen definition of the form and the read-out code of the validator, and a screen generation unit for generating screen information to be displayed on the client device by use of a result of division.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Fumihiko Kitayama, Shin-ichi Hirose, Hiroaki Nakamura, Go Kondo
  • Publication number: 20120327824
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which a data collection system loads a user interface form on a display screen. The user interface form includes an entry field and an extraction formula with a corresponding element type that adheres to an industry-specific schema. The data collection system receives a data packet from a broadcast device, which includes an element value and an element type identifier adhering to the same industry-specific schema. In turn, the data collection system determines whether the element type identifier matches the element type and, if so, the data collection system populates the entry field on the display screen with the element value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Erik Dean Anderson, William Arthur Griffith, Indran Naick
  • Patent number: 8335984
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that generates print data for variable-data printing by applying internal data to a variable-data printing document, the information processing apparatus comprises a markup language data structure display means configured to read markup language data structure information, and displays a structure that markup language data has; a record level element designation acceptance means configured to accept, from a user, designation of a record level element used as a record level that indicates a record unit in the structure of the markup language data displayed by the markup language data structure display means; and a markup language data structure conversion means configured, in order to apply the markup language data based on the markup language data structure information, as the internal data, to the variable-data printing document, to convert the record level element so as to have a structure of the internal data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yutaka Myoki
  • Publication number: 20120315877
    Abstract: A device and system for use before and after a disaster which incorporate a “Whole Community” response is illustrated. The system can be readily customized for use in other markets and scenarios and easily adapted into uses by emergency management. The device incorporates a GPS radio and/or cell phones with, pre-programmed instructions which are uploaded automatically in the device's memory via wireless technology prior to the unit's first use. Radios on the units can enable the searchers to audibly communicate with each other without cell towers. The system can be employed by cleanup teams, insurance adjusters, and any number of pre/post response teams focused on mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery operations. The system can contain a modifiable and functional, virtual badge and can export data gathered in the field, as well as integrate this data with other, pre-existing software via software APIs contained within the system and cell phone software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventor: Scott Lewis
  • Publication number: 20120311425
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a computer program product and a system of fulfilling requests for information data from a network client in a client-server environment. The system and computer program product include receiving a hypertext document and a program component and displaying the hypertext document, the hypertext document having initially no information data filling its form fields. A user requests information from a network client which calls the program component to request information and upon determination that the requested information is not stored in a buffer memory the requested information is downloaded from the network server. The form fields in the hypertext document are filled with the information and displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vincent Auffray, Arnold Lescarmontier, Arnaud Bricard, Fabien Lecomte, Jean-Marie Vallade
  • Patent number: 8325367
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically assigning items to printable media are disclosed. A computer readable medium is in communication with a computing device and includes programming instructions for electronically obtaining a first template that includes a plurality of first content items, each including a first content area. For each first content item, first content area properties and first content item properties are identified. A second template including a plurality of second content areas is electronically obtained. For each second content area, second content area properties, second content item properties and content rules are automatically identified. For each first content item, it may be determined whether a first content item corresponds to a second content area based on the rules. The first content item may be automatically assigned to the second content area. A representation of each assigned content item may be printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Dale Ellen Gaucas, Kirk J. Ocke, Michael David Shepherd
  • Patent number: 8321423
    Abstract: A method of sharing user data with a plurality of web-based financial calculators includes obtaining a user request for a selected web-based financial calculator from the plurality of web-based financial calculators and identifying at least one input data element required by the selected web-based financial calculator. The method also includes searching a relational database, storing data shared by the plurality of web-based financial calculators, for the at least one identified input data element and determining whether there are any values in the relational database for the at least one identified input data element that are associated with the user. The method further includes populating the at least one identified input data element in the selected web-based financial calculator with a value associated with the user for the at least one identified input data element and providing the selected web-based financial calculator to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Mason Eubank, Nikolay Eshkenazi, Neff Karl Hudson, Michael Wayne Lester
  • Patent number: 8321877
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of previously checking a setting mistake when a macro button is generated and preventing a macro using a reserved word from being inappropriately executed. A macro acquisition unit obtains the macro. A user information acquisition unit obtains user information associated with a user of the image processing apparatus. A replacing unit, when the macro obtained by the macro acquisition unit is a macro including a reserved word that is to be replaced with a portion of the user information, replaces the reserved word with the portion of the user information obtained by the user information acquisition unit. A check unit checks whether the macro replaced by the replacing unit can be normally executed. A notification unit notifies a check result of the check unit to a previously defined user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideo Asahara
  • Patent number: 8321311
    Abstract: A method for submitting information for an engagement is disclosed. The method might include the steps of generating a tracking screen for tracking the submission of a plurality of files, including a tax file and an image file, each file having the same client identification code, receiving the tax file from a first client device, and updating the tracking screen to reflect the submission of the tax file. The method further might include the steps of receiving an image file from a second client device, updating the tracking screen to reflect the submission of the image file, and transmitting the plurality of files to a remote server system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sureprep, LLC
    Inventors: David A. Wyle, Makarand Karkare
  • Patent number: 8300261
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for retrieving a printable media template from an identifier that is associated with printable media. The identifier is retrieved by a reader and a controller that are operatively coupled to receive and process the information. The controller includes a template engine that retrieves a printable media template corresponding to the information received from the identifier. A method for retrieving and generating a printable media template is also provided. A printable media package is also included that identifies a printable template for printing content on the printable media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: James D. Johnson, II, Jerry G. Hodsdon, Wade Person
  • Patent number: 8294942
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a content data acquisition unit configured to acquire content data to be inserted into an insertion area which is set in an image formation area for forming an image, and a content data transmission unit configured to transmit the acquired content data to an image forming apparatus that is capable of forming an image. The apparatus further includes an identification information acquisition unit configured to acquire identification information of the transmitted content data from the image forming apparatus; an image formation data generation unit configured to generate image formation data for forming the image, using the identification information; and an image formation data transmission unit configured to transmit the generated image formation data to the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yutaka Myoki
  • Patent number: 8281310
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically generating flowcharts based on jobs within a mainframe job scheduling system is disclosed. The system may be interfaced through a web browser over a network (e.g., Internet) in order to configure a job flowchart request. The system includes a job flow utility employing rules and logic to execute a Job Control Language (JCL) script thereby invoking the creation of a job schedule based from a scheduling library and generates a delimited set of data that is stored within a database or saved as a delimited text file. The system also enables a user to view a job flowchart online or download the text-delimited file to open within existing charting applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Bing-Kong Chan
  • Publication number: 20120239640
    Abstract: A mobile station is arranged to determine its location, which is searched against street addresses from a database, and at least one matching street address is retrieved. The street address is searched on the mobile station and/or over the network. The search engine conducts a search in the mobile station file system and/or the Internet and/or a file system over the network with the at least one query term, —at least one search result is arranged to be displayed to user on the screen of the mobile station. This facilitates on-demand effortless Mobile Internet Search that allows the users to access opportunities that they did not know about, or would not have had time to find out about with minimum effort as the software of the mobile phone is scanning the Internet and information pages for these opportunities and displaying the results dynamically on the mobile phone screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventor: Mikko VÄÄNÄNEN
  • Publication number: 20120226969
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed technology provide a system and method for automatically filling paper form with electronic data. The system receives from a user a scanned image of a paper form that includes a plurality of fields. The system then retrieves a schema map that maps the plurality of fields in the paper form to a plurality of fields in an electronic data record associated with the user. Next, the system retrieves data values of the fields in the electronic data record based on the schema map. The system also synthesizes the retrieved data values and the scanned image to create an image of the paper form in which the fields are filled with the retrieved data values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: James M.A. Begole, Maurice K. Chu, Kurt E. Partridge, Robert T. Krivacic, Mary C. McCorkindale
  • Publication number: 20120221934
    Abstract: A form management system is provided that bundles individual electronic form instances into a single bundled form. Form field names in the electronic form instances and scripts are renamed at the time the form instances are merged into a bundle. In this manner, common names can be assigned to individual form fields in individual forms and then only the form field names in electronic forms selected for the bundle are renamed. Furthermore, the same renaming scheme is also executed in the scripts associated with the individual form documents and fields. As such, the form field names in the scripts of bundled documents are altered to reference the renamed form fields in the corresponding component forms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: EFFICIENT FORMS, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Micah Eckelman, Douglas Leon Birch
  • Publication number: 20120198323
    Abstract: A computer-generated value is provided having a first value, at a first instant, for a dual value data attribute. A user-specified value is received and stored for the dual value attribute. A field flag value for the dual value attribute, in a first flag state, specifies that the stored user-specified value is to be used during consumption of the dual value attribute. The stored user-specified value is provided for consumption by a software application based on the field flag value being in the first flag state. At a second instant, the field flag value is changed to a second flag state indicating that the computer-generated value is to be used during consumption of the dual value attribute. At a third instant, the computer-generated field value is provided for consumption by a software application based on the flag value being set to the second flag state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventor: Karlheinz Lier
  • Patent number: 8234561
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for autocompleting form fields based on observed values. In general, in one implementation, the techniques include observing values entered in form field objects, generating likelihood assessments for possible values to be entered in a current form field object based on the observed values, the likelihood assessments indicating relative probability of the possible values being entered in the current form field object, and predicting a value for the current form field object based on the generated likelihood assessments. The techniques also include generating at least two likelihood assessments for each of the possible values, and aggregating the at least two likelihood assessments for each of the possible values. Generation of likelihood assessments can involve determining semantic similarity between form fields, including comparing field names with a semantic category, and generation of likelihood assessments can also involve comparing entered value ordering information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Lubomir D. Bourdev
  • Patent number: 8230323
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for automatically identifying information in unstructured text and extracting data representing certain types of information from the text to produce a structured set of templates with the extracted data. The newly structured data is then delivered to different types of user devices in accordance stored criteria associated with each type of device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: SRA International, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott William Bennett, Chinatsu Aone, Mila Ramos-Santacruz
  • Publication number: 20120185760
    Abstract: A data-processing device includes: a display control means that causes a display means to display multiple input fields that receive input of data; an acquisition means that acquires multiple items of data constituting a data group; a recording means that records into a storage means a first item of data, which is one of the multiple items of data acquired by the acquisition means, while associating the first item of data with a first input field predetermined, and records into the storage means a second item of data, which is one of the multiple items of data acquired by the acquisition means and inputted later than the first item of data, while associating the second item of data with a second input field(s) that is included in the multiple input fields and is different from the first input field; and a specifying means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoki Hashida, Hisashi Hamada, Mizuri Fujii, Yoshiaki Maeda
  • Patent number: 8200780
    Abstract: The invention features a method, system, and computer program product. User input defining a form that has one or more fields is received. User input defining a set of entries associated with the form is also received, the set of entries identifying available connections to data repositories and fields of the form that are associated with the connections. Each data repository is connected with the fields associated with the data repository using one or more declarative statements that enable one-to-many mappings from fields in the form to data repositories as defined by the set of entries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Anatole Matveief, Jean Young, Chris Solc
  • Patent number: 8201077
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to systems, methods and devices for modifying and managing form documents with an application that receives input from an imaging device user interface and from other sources. Some aspects relate to an input field definition file that obtained or generated at a device that is remote to the imaging device and which comprises display parameters and UI options for prompting a user for field input and as well as instructions for obtaining field data from other sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Amarender Reddy Kethi Reddy, Shinichi Yamamura
  • Patent number: 8196032
    Abstract: Systems and methods for template-based multimedia authoring and sharing are described. In one aspect, media content is selectively applied to a content description template to author media in a content description. The content description template provides a temporal structure for the applied media content. A content representation template is selected and combined with the temporally structured media in the content description to specify rendering criteria and generate a content description and representation for one or more of rendering, sharing, and exporting the temporally structured authored media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Xian-Sheng Hua, Shipeng Li
  • Patent number: 8190988
    Abstract: A form management system is provided that bundles individual electronic form instances into a single bundled form. Form field names in the electronic form instances and scripts are renamed at the time the form instances are merged into a bundle. In this manner, common names can be assigned to individual form fields in individual forms and then only the form field names in electronic forms selected for the bundle are renamed. Furthermore, the same renaming scheme is also executed in the scripts associated with the individual form documents and fields. As such, the form field names in the scripts of bundled documents are altered to reference the renamed form fields in the corresponding component forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Efficient Forms, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Micah Eckelman, Douglas Leon Birch
  • Publication number: 20120084199
    Abstract: A user, such as a merchant, populates a form, such as an on-boarding form from a payment provider, with information unique to the user. In one embodiment, the user enters a URL address. The information is communicated to the payment provider, who then obtains additional information about the user based on the information. In one embodiment, web scraping results in a name, address, a phone number, and/or an email address for the user. The form is populated with this information by the payment provider and returned to the user for confirmation or correction. As a result, the form filling is easier for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: EBAY INC.
    Inventor: Carl Stone
  • Publication number: 20120084633
    Abstract: The method of generating a graphical resume allows a user to produce either a conventional textual resume or a resume in a graphical format. A database is established and a plurality of templates are stored in the database. The templates include an informational template, a textual resume template and a plurality of graphical resume templates. Each of the templates includes at least one fillable resume field. The informational template is displayed to the user and bibliographic data entered by the user is stored in the database. A plurality of resume formats are then displayed. The plurality of resume formats correspond to the textual and the graphical resume templates. Upon selection of one of the resume formats, the at least one fillable resume field of the corresponding one of the textual and the graphical resume templates is filled with the bibliographic data stored in the database to produce a resume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
    Inventors: MEHMET DONDURUR, AHMET Z. SAHIN